So it’s January 10th? What does that mean exactly? Well…. many interesting things. It’s 346 days until the end of the world… Christian Feast Day (whatever the hell that means) and lots of stuff happened on this day in years past.
- 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
- 1810 – Napoleon Bonaparte divorces his first wife Joséphine.
- 1861 – American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
- 1863 – The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
- 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
- 1901 – The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
- 1920 – The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
- 1927 – Fritz Lang‘s futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.
- 1929 – The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most popular European comic books ever, is first published in Belgium.
- 1941 – World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.
- 1946 – The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.
- 1946 – The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the moon and receiving the reflected signals.
- 1984 – The United States and Vatican City establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.
- 1990 – Time Warner is formed from the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
- 2005 – A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, California, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing U.S. Route 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
- 2011 – 2010–2011 Queensland floods: Torrential rain in the Lockyer Valley region of South East Queensland, Australia causes severe flash flooding, killing 9 people.
- 2012 – It was a slow as shit news day for the White Glossy Underground Board and they put random crap about year’s past on their site. Yawn.
- Dumb.
